Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 41 My Divine Uncle
Because it was too late, Yu Qiutang asked Lao Qintou to wait for him at the tower at noon tomorrow. Just after he delivered the tofu, he would take him to the place where the little civets appeared. He and the two little ones returned with a full load.

Although the weight was not light and even Yu Xiaoyun was carrying some things, the two children's steps seemed to be even lighter than when they came.

The things they bought today are more than they have ever bought in their entire lives.

Yu Qiutang also bought them sour candied haws, sweet glutinous rice cakes, spicy and red臊子面, and even sugarcane.

Sugarcane tastes so sweet when you chew it.

They had picked up a piece of sugarcane root that others had left behind on the road before, and they still found it very sweet, with an unforgettable aftertaste.

Now two people can eat a whole stick, it tastes so good.

In the eyes of the two siblings, Yu Qiutang was no longer just an uncle, he was like a god. They felt that there was no one in the world more powerful than their uncle.

Yu Qiutang felt very happy seeing the two little ones so happy.

Especially when he saw Yu Xiaowei smiling and thought of his premature death in his previous life, he felt that it would be worth it even if he could only do this one thing well in this life.

He has a very good relationship with his brother Yu Chunsheng. Although Yu Chunsheng and Yu Qiushi are both his brothers and they do not have the same father and mother, he has been very close to Yu Chunsheng since he was a child because Yu Chunsheng has a simple and gentle personality.

On the contrary, after Yu Qiushi was born, he always disliked this younger brother, thinking that he was led astray by his mother. He was naughty and had a lot of bad intentions at a young age. When he grew up, he was lazy and gluttonous. It was embarrassing to talk about it.

"Uncle, when can we go into the mountains to pick leaves again? These things sell very quickly. If we do more, we can make more money."

Yu Xiaowei is still involved in today's prosperous business. He is mature beyond his years and knows the importance of money. However, Yu Xiaoyun, who is only a year younger than him, is relatively naive and does not have much concept about money.

"No hurry, I'll take you when the time comes. But we agreed that I'll take you now, but after school starts you have to study hard and do well. If I knew you didn't study well in school, I would never take you there again and I wouldn't ask you to do anything."

Yu Xiaowei nodded hurriedly: "Oh shit."

The three of them returned to the village entrance and were about to turn into the path leading home when Yu Qiutang suddenly remembered something. He asked the two children to go back first and turned to another path.

After walking more than a mile forward and almost reaching the foot of the mountain, I saw a few dilapidated stone houses at the end of the road. It was only three o'clock in the afternoon, but wisps of blue smoke were rising from the roofs of some of the houses.

You can also hear the sound of "clang...clang...clang" from afar.

He smiled nostalgically and came to a few rooms.

This is a three-room stone house. Two of the doors are closed with straw curtains hanging on them, while the one on the far right is a simple blacksmith shop.

At the door and on the surrounding walls, there are all kinds of iron farm tools, kitchen utensils, and appliances. There is a fire burning in the stove at the door.

A well-dressed young man was forging iron shirtless, while a young girl with pale hair was burning the fire in front of the stove. She looked very sick and was panting and coughing from pulling the bellows.

When the two saw Yu Qiutang coming, they were both stunned. The man's hammer paused in mid-air for a moment before he hit the red-hot iron ingot heavily.

Ignored Yu Qiutang.

The woman who was lighting the fire smiled gently at Yu Qiutang. "Brother, you're here."

"Ask him why!"

The blacksmith scolded the woman and continued to forge iron with a dull mind. However, the rhythm of his forging was not as stable as before. The speed began to become uneven, and his breathing became more and more rapid. "Pah!"

Finally, he couldn't bear it any longer, threw the hammer to the side, and yelled at Yu Qiutang angrily, "What are you doing here, are you here to laugh at me? You haven't seen enough, I can't afford to provoke you, and I can't hide from you, so why are you chasing me!"

Yu Qiutang looked gloomy.

The young blacksmith in front of him was three years older than him. He was his cousin, Yu Qiujiang, the son of his youngest uncle Yu Deshui.

The one who lit the fire was my cousin Yu Chunju.

At that time, Yu Chunjiang's mother, Yu Qiutang's aunt, suffered from a strange disease. Her hair suddenly turned completely white and a layer of birthmark-like substance appeared on her body. It was very scary.

The villagers said that the disease was contagious and wanted Yu Deshui to divorce his wife and drive her out of the village. Yu Deshui had a good relationship with his wife and naturally did not want to give her up.

As a result, the villagers deliberately isolated them, spread gossip about them, and deliberately targeted them when they were working in the brigade, making it difficult for them to live.

At first, Yu Deshui's brothers all helped him, but they didn't expect that after a few years, Yu Chunju's hair turned white, and whenever the weather was cold, a layer of strange spots would appear on her body. This made the brothers a little worried, and they began to keep their distance from them.

The young aunt finally couldn't bear the pressure, and one evening when she was cooking, she put rat poison in the bowl, intending to kill the whole family together. However, Yu Deshui saw through the clues, sent the children out, and finally left with his wife.

At that time, Yu Qiujiang was only eight years old and his sister Yu Chunju was less than five years old.

The death of their parents suddenly left the two children orphans. The uncles and aunts felt guilty and raised the two children together.

But even so, Yu Qiujiang had begun to understand things, and he knew the whole story clearly. When he was a teenager, he took his sister to learn blacksmithing from an old blacksmith for several years. Gradually, he could support himself, so he took his sister to live away from the village and did not interact with others.

Yu Qiutang and Yu Qiujiang were of similar age and had a very good brotherly relationship. Even with this kind of incident, it did not hinder their relationship.

But ever since Chen Meidi found out that the two were still in contact, she was worried that infectious diseases would spread to their home, so she strictly forbade them to continue associating, and even dragged Yu Dejin along to teach Yu Qiutang a lesson.

Yu Qiutang had a cowardly character in his previous life, so he could not resist the interference of his father and stepmother, and gradually became estranged from Yu Qiujiang.

Later I heard that Yu Qiujiang had saved up some money and took Chunju to a large hospital in another city for a check-up, and it seemed that Chunju's condition had improved.

But once they left, they lost all contact, and Yu Qiutang had no idea what happened to them.

When he reached middle age, he felt very ashamed whenever he recalled the past, remembering that they were cousins ​​and had such a close relationship, but they became distant when Yu Qiujiang needed him the most.

Even though it was due to pressure, it still had something to do with the fact that he didn’t fight back.

Yu Qiutang came to his senses and remembered that he and Yu Qiujiang were still at the beginning of their quarrel and it had not turned into true indifference and estrangement.

Yu Qiujiang was just angry with him, but he didn't blame him or hate him.

The two still have a chance to turn things around and repair their relationship.

He has been given a chance to make up for the regrets of his previous life, and he must seize it.

"Haha, Brother Jiang, why don't I come to see my brother? Do I need to write an application?"

(End of this chapter)